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WELCOME to the Digital Neuronal Operations Center / DINOC
PROCEEDINGS of The DINOC Journal
Journal Contents
Original Reports, Commentaries, Letters, Tech Notes & HG8 Chapters.
At the Core of our Neocortical Soul: DINOC Our Digital Neuronal Operations Center
The DINOC Journal
Publications Pending: This Curated Site supports works beyond traditional venues: NeuroTech and NeuroLinguistics especially welcome. Ping Don for details.
Embracing a Symbolic Core
SNOPs: Basic Research into neocortical Symbolic Neuronal Operations is our mission. Allied interests e.g. The Quadrupling (addition of 3 chimp brains over 4 million years) and new intracranial-insights exemplify our priorities.
The Neuro3000 Experience
We expect to offer a stable platform for the next 20 years (no guarantees) and to fund this modest web venture for the next hundred years (circumstances permitting). Will this low key venue persist to 3000 AD? perhaps
SPECIAL TOPIC: iCR aka intra-Cranial Recordings
Please visit the iCR Playground: favorite iCR studies & commentaries
Original Reports / Open Commentary: 2026
THESE WORKS, at present, focus on Linguistic-Cognitive Evolution across the Hominid Trajectory which was fueled by a quadrupling of our neo-chimpian neocortex over the past 2.5 million years. Of special note is the invention of a Symbolic-Linguistic Layer that enables sharing of real-world information. Critiques and Elaborations regarding posted commentaries should be directed to dmo, Site Editor.
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From SNOPs to Universal Grammar: an NGG Primer: Open Access
Journal of the Digital Neuronal Operations Center. July 18, 2026. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
Preliminary: This Primer offers a foundation in hominid SNOPs: Symbolic Neuronal Operations. It features candidate neuronal machinery from the Dawn of Language (by Habi, circa 3 million years ago) that paved the way for neocortical expansion and hominid-grade Semantic Construction. AANs (Auto-Associative Networks are
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Coming Soon: Precis of Hominid Games: Tools, Neurons and Language. HG offers a rapid Level-Up for newbies to the neurolinguistics, hominid evolution and SNS field. This Precis conveys some core elements of HG including Niche Construction, Proto-Words, Natural Syntax => Universal Grammar, AAN-World and a modern Neuro-Generative Grammar. This foundation predates recent developments in NGG / Cyclops Theory and Hominid Constructionism. Builds upon works by Chomsky, Jackendoff, Dehaene, Poeppel and many more recent and classic authors (available via Barnes and Noble in Spring, 2027).
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Coming Soon: Semantic Hubs vs. AAN-World. Lambon and colleagues (2017) write about the "neural and computational bases of semantic cognition". But might a more fundamental, AAN-fueled approach to Semantic Construction better explain the evolution of hominid cognitive-linguistic systems? Many iCR studies have implications for the use and organization of AAN-world structures, e.g. Murphy et al. 2022; Jamali et al., 2024. [Site Editor, dmo, in progress].
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Coming Soon: Commentary: Can Chimps Talk? Recordings of Chimp Call Combinations (Girard, 2025, SciAdv) are suggestive of compositional mechanisms that greatly extend the richness of auditory exchanges. Might these foreshadow the inexorable power of the hominid linguistic-layer symbolic operations? [Sr. Editor MS, in progress].
